The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-06-16
PRESS NOTES.

cry competition.
Senator ingalls, has been lecturing
against woman suffrage.
Rear Admiral Schofeldt has sued the
Shanghai Courier for libel.
Stage, the Yale pitcher, expects to be-
come preacher of the gospel.
farmer near Chico, Cal, raises and
cures all the tea his family uses.
Senator Noyes says the Massachusetts,
Legislature will adjourn June 16.
penny life of Queen Victoria is the
latest London jubilee speculation.
There are 100000 barmaids in London
who dispense half-and half to order.
England now boasts of clocks that wind
themselves up automatically every hour.
The new English silver coin, the double
dorin, is called in ordinary speech "a
dollar"
The New York Stae Prohibition con-
vention will be held at Albany August %
and 26.
During his visit to Killarney Count
Herbert Bismarck constantly carried g re-
voiyer.
United States Senator Spooner has for
years tried to raise mustache, but with
out avail.
man at Westfield, ILL.,, had the tooth
ache so severely that it resulted in paraly-
sis of the brain.
A new Kansas paper intends to obtain
a wide circulation under the euphonious
name of Soap Box"
John Sherman's Springfield speech
ought to excite one very general inquiry:
Why are such men as John Sherman
called statesmen? Chicago Times.
A rich New York dry goods merchants
son, who was entirely bald, has had the
hair from a Newfoundland dogs leg
transplanted to his own head, and it is
growing nicely.
Mr.. Blaine is no doubt greatly delighted
to observe that John Sherman has made
fool of himself. Mr.. Blaine can now go
on his European trip in peace. Sherman
is no longer dangerous.
A three-quarter length portrait of the
late Peter Cooper was received by the
New York Chamber of Commerce yester-
day. The painting is the work OF Ii. A.
Loop. 1t was presented to the chamber
by ex-Mayor Edward Cooper.
Getting rid of a man is very easy pro-
cess if you are really in earnest about it.
Some girls marry and feed their victims
with bread they have made themselves
This is a roundabout way of getting rid
of man.-Bill Nye.
Harry A. Hall has become editor of the
Elk County Gazette. The three numbers
of the Gazette that have been issued under
Mr.. Halls vigorous editorship give
promise that it will have a strong in
huence with the democracy of the Twen-
tieth congress district.
Mr.. Pike is prominent in the new Gros-
venor Gallery Club in London, and the
other evening a vocalist who had been
singing at the club was asked where he
had been. "Fishing," was the reply.
"Fishing?" eyes," said the quibbling
warbler, II have been trolling for Pike"
A Rugg street youugster who has been
the possessor of cats of several colors
and sizes felt like having a charge, and
so remarked to his mother the other day,
as he stroked the cat he held in his lap:
Mamma, hope the next cat 1 have will
be dog!'-St. Adams (Vt.) Messenger.
OMr. D. A. Orr, editor of the Chambers
burg Daily Spirit, will sail on the Servia
on June Is for a brief absence in Europe.
He will land at Queenstown, visiting Ire
land and Scotland, After a short stay in
London he will make tour of the con-
tinent. A small party of friends will
accompany him.
woman entered the smoking car on an
east-bouud Wabash train at Roam, Ind,
the other day, and few minutes after
she sat down was enveloped in flames,
which were smothered with great diff
Guilty. She had seated herself on lighted
cigar stub, which had ignited her dress
and even the ceilluoid hustle which she
wore.
Readers of Harper's Magazine of thirty
years ago will be glad to know that "Porte
Crayon, whose pen and pencil sketches of
life in the south in those days were SO
charming, is passing peaceful and pros
porous old age 10 his native state, Vir-
ginia. His real name is David Hunter
Strother, and mis- service in the union
army during the war Of the rebellion en-.
titles him to the title of General Gen
eral STROLLER is 10 years old and in pc r
, feet health.-New York Sun.
The national bureau Of statistics shows
that on The 100000 COO which annually
, passes into the tills of the retailers of in
, tCxicating liquors in this country
tnere is a profit Of 1881 per cent
If poor people had to pay such tax as
thai Oh bread there would be rebellion
fBut when a man tosses off glass of
whisky and pays cents for the drink and
or cents to the barkeeper for the trou-
BILE of handing it to him he generally
thinks the barkeeper an awfully good fel.
low.-Springfeld Mass Union.
The difference in the price of coal as
made by the extortionists and that made
by the newspapers saves the coal con
sumers of Philadelphia the enormous sum
of 100000 annually. There is certainly
some glory for the Record in a record like
that. The Record has not made cent for
itself in selling these thousands upon
thousands of tons of coal, BUTT must have
, certainly made mucn in the Way Of es ab
/; fishing itself more securely II the efrsc-
tious oe the people OF the Quake: City,
+ Rochester n. H. Herald.